How does an iDEAL payment via Mollie work?

There are various ways of integrating our payment methods into your website. You can, for instance, let your consumer choose their preferred payment method on your website. In that case, the consumer chooses iDEAL and selects their bank when they are still on the website. The consumer is then redirected to the secure online environment (online banking) of their bank and makes their payment there.

Another option is that the choice of payment method is not made on the website, but on our payment screen. This looks as follows:

The consumer clicks on iDEAL and is redirected to the next screen where they select their bank. The consumer is then redirected to the online banking environment to make the payment.

Regardless of how the payment methods are integrated, the consumer has 15 minutes to complete payment. After these 15 minutes, the status of the payment is immediately known and communicated to your website, so that, for instance, an order is marked as 'paid'. You can also immediately look up the transaction in your Mollie account.